Black Sea Bream

* Here I encountered a puzzle, this species has a black eye. It is therefore hard to believe, as the 1965 FAO catalogue suggested, that its Turkish name is sarigöz, meaning ‘yellow eye’. In fact its name, according to a Turkish correspondent, is really saragoz, which has nothing to do with its eyes and indeed has no meaning. The same correspondent points out that the name karagoz, applied to the species on pages 80 and 81, does not, as one might think, refer to their having black eyes, but alludes to a ‘funny man’ of Turkish folklore who lived in (?) the thirteenth century and who is buried at Bursa, The shape of fishes of the genus Diplodus reminded people of the shape of his turban, and these fishes were therefore called after him.